Luísa Tito de Morais
Biography
Luísa Tito de Morais was born in 1942. At just five years old, she visited her father, Manuel Alfredo Tito de Morais, a leader of the MUD (Movement for Democratic Unity) and one of the founders of the Socialist Party (PS), in Aljube Prison. Her grandfather, Admiral Tito de Morais, a Republican Party activist, had participated in the October 5, 1910, uprising.
After following the campaigns of Arlindo Vicente and Humberto Delgado in 1958, Luísa Tito de Morais joined the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) at the age of 16. She participated in the struggles of high school students and in the creation of a pro-association of high school students. From 1961 onwards – after being imprisoned in Paris on her way to the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow – she spent several years in exile. First in Paris, then in Prague, in what was then Czechoslovakia, and finally in Algeria, always with his partner Pedro Ramos de Almeida.
In 1970, now with a son, he returned clandestinely to Portugal. In 1972, he abandoned his clandestine life and began to engage in legal political activity, particularly in supporting the clandestine apparatus and within the Democratic Electoral Commission (CDE), of which he would later serve as a director.
